Hello, for a few days I have been receiving some strange comments in the area of accomodation of Spain that by its composition I think they are hakeo attempts of my website, (please look at attached image) I want to know how I can solve this with the tool Akeeba admin tools.
#27515 How do you block hacking attempt using the comment tool?
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Latest post by on Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:17 CDT
Tuesday, 11 April 2017 11:13 CDT
nicholas
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That's not a hacking attempt, that's spam. Ideally comment spam is fought with the following ways which have to be implemented by the comment system (K2 in your case), not Admin Tools:
Unfortunately K2 is still in the Dark Ages as far as commenting is concerned. Many years ago (back in 2011) I had brought this up with its developer. He simply doesn't care because his company doesn't use K2's builtin comment system. They use Disqus or Facebook for comments on their clients' sites. So I'd recommend not using K2's broken commenting system since it will never be improved.
The only things you can do with Admin Tools is enable the Project HoneyPot integration to prevent some spammers and use the Bad Words filtering to prevent the use of certain phrases you see in spam messages, e.g. the domain name in all the URLs you see.
Again, comment spam is something that needs to be addressed at the commenting application level, not at the web application firewall level. On my blog I use CComment which does integrate with Akismet and it's far superior to whatever K2 had ever offered. It's not even fair comparing CComment to K2, it's like comparing an Audi A4 to a rickshaw.
- CAPTCHA when a guest or a user without adequate reputation files a comment.
- Comment moderation
- Integration with a spam prevention service such as Akismet and Project Honeypot
- Blocking specific words or phrases
Unfortunately K2 is still in the Dark Ages as far as commenting is concerned. Many years ago (back in 2011) I had brought this up with its developer. He simply doesn't care because his company doesn't use K2's builtin comment system. They use Disqus or Facebook for comments on their clients' sites. So I'd recommend not using K2's broken commenting system since it will never be improved.
The only things you can do with Admin Tools is enable the Project HoneyPot integration to prevent some spammers and use the Bad Words filtering to prevent the use of certain phrases you see in spam messages, e.g. the domain name in all the URLs you see.
Again, comment spam is something that needs to be addressed at the commenting application level, not at the web application firewall level. On my blog I use CComment which does integrate with Akismet and it's far superior to whatever K2 had ever offered. It's not even fair comparing CComment to K2, it's like comparing an Audi A4 to a rickshaw.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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Thursday, 11 May 2017 17:17 CDT
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